LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is hosting a series of Community Development Workshops covering Community Assistance and Community Development Block Grant training at eight locations around the state between May and October. ?This is a golden opportunity for economic developers and local officials to learn about all the tools available to facilitate strong
LANSING - Liquid Web enhanced its reputation as an innovator in web hosting services by adding a Content Delivery Network to its already diverse palette of hosting options. Liquid Web Founder and CEO, Matthew Hill, explains the advantages content providers can unlock by utilizing CDNs: ?The technology utilized by CDNs represents the fastest and most
YPSILANTI ? When University of Michigan Business Professor David Brophy started the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium in 1980, he only figured it would run a couple of years. This week, Brophy celebrated the 30th edition of what has become the grand daddy of all American investment conferences. On May 10-11, 41 companies ?pitched? venture capital
LANSING - The most sweeping overhaul of state taxes in a generation overcame its most difficult obstacle Thursday when the Senate, despite great reluctance among several of members of the Republican majority, scrounged up the votes to pass the legislation. Two hours later, the House concurred in the Senate version of the bill, sending it
LANSING - Two environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Environmental Quality, charging it violated state rules when it issued an air pollution permit for the expansion of a Holland coal-fired power plant. In the suit, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Fund charged that the then Department of Natural
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Facebook has plugged a hole that was inadvertently providing advertisers and other third parties access to user accounts via tokens that serve as "spare keys," Symantec said today after disclosing the problem to the social-networking company. "Facebook was notified of this issue and has confirmed this leakage," Nishant Doshi, a senior software
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said the introduction of the inaugural W.K. Kellogg-Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship class at the Capitol on Thursday symbolized something much more important than the tax debate going on down the hall. Six of the first 92 recipients joined Snyder at a news conference. Each will receive $30,000 to pursue
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Facebook users are being duped into unwittingly spreading spam by clicking on what looks like a link to news entitled "First Exposure: iPhone 5." A version of the scam, exploiting peoples' interest in the next-generation iPhone, went around Facebook earlier this month, and it's back today with minor changes. The scam
ROCHESTER ? Starting Friday, the Green Living Festival will transform downtown Rochester into class rooms where upwards of 50,000 people will learn about the latest trends, products and services in clean, green and sustainable energy. The Green Living Festival is one of the planet's largest green events. It will be held in downtown Rochester, Friday,
SAN FRANCISCO - Global software piracy reached a record figure of $59 billion last year, a new study from the Business Software Alliance has found. That figure represents a 14 percent increase compared with 2009 and a doubling since 2003, the trade group said today. Forty-two percent of PC software was pirated worldwide last year,